Clever arm for iRobot Create

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By Kipp Bradford
Posted 2010/01/26 @ 11:49 pm
Category Robotics

My friend Chad Jenkins turned me on to this very nifty and very functional robot arm for the iRobot Create. It’s elegant in its simplicity, and would be a great weekend robotics project.

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5 Responses to Clever arm for iRobot Create

Harrison on January 28th, 2010 at 3:32 am said:

This arm seems to be a lot helpful to people on wheelchair or for those who cannot bend down for medical reasons.
If the flat tray on which the arm places objects can be magnetized this could be used for picking up metallic objects too like nuts,pins,nails etc.

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asdf on January 28th, 2010 at 7:57 am said:

“It’s elegant in it’s simplicity”
1st “It’s” is correct.
2nd “it’s” should be “its” (no apostrophe in possessive pronouns).

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- Kipp Bradford on January 28th, 2010 at 8:09 am said:
  
  Ouch. I could pretend that I did that on purpose, but I didn’t. Mistake fixed… Thanks for paying close attention!
  
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Travis Deyle on January 28th, 2010 at 10:55 am said:

This is called the “Dustpan” robot. It was built at Georgia Tech’s Healthcare Robotics Lab and documented in an ICRA 2009 paper entitled, “1000 Trials: An Empirically Validated End Effector that Robustly Grasps Objects from the Floor.”

You can find out more about it at Hizook.com

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/05/08/irobot-create-roomba-dustpan-end-effector-grasps-objects-floor

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- Kipp Bradford on January 28th, 2010 at 11:18 am said:
  
  Travis, thank you for the additional information. I’ll be at ICRA 2010. Hopefully the Healthcare Robots Lab will bring more cool innovations to show off!
  
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